When people find skills they are jealous of, they often try to discourage it and cover it up with phrases like:

* Don't you have a life?
* What a nerd
* You have too much time on your hands
* There has GOT to be a better use of your knowledge and skills
* There's something wrong with you

Ignore those critics and do what you want anyway. Your life will be better for it.

That's nice. It would be cool if you actually developed a skill instead of just pretending on the internet.

Sometimes people do things for fun........not because they want to please internet critics.

metaprogramming is like functional programming in these senses:

1) Uses lots of recusion
2) Has no variables, only constants. Nothing is mutable.
3) Has functions

Because of 1 and 2, it helps to think in terms of functional programming if you want to do anything substantial.

No, the syntax is the entire thing wrong with C++ metaprogramming. It clearly wasn't designed for things like this. To clear up any doubt about the syntax, check out this file. In addition the inscrutable error messages (although those have improved over the past decade). If anyone likes template metaprogramming, I suggest they just use LISP.

That said, this project is really cool. Nice hack mattbierner.

I feel like there's something wrong with a community when people start having loyalty to the mods. A mod should be there mainly to filter spam, and to a lesser extent trolls. They aren't there to guide the conversation and gain loyalty.

Or they could do moderating like slashdot does, which is superior to every other moderating system on the web.

If you can stream it with entertaining commentary (like Mystery Science Theater 2000), then you can get viewers.

Yes, but are you willing to (roughly) double your internet bill to get that redundancy? If you are like most people, probably not.

Specifically, if you are interested in buying some from companies who already have them, you can go here.
Presumably they will get more and more expensive until it's cheaper to just get hardware that supports IPv6.

Those are lousy reasons to take away someone's freedom. The walled garden hasn't kept malware off devices, and Android has shown you can get all the benefits of the walled garden without giving up the freedom.

There are always more people who will try to take control of your device if they can. We've seen this play out before with Microsoft Palladium....first being a way to ensure you had legal copies of windows, then expanding to mean you could only play media approved by the RIAA/MPAA etc. Fortunately it got dropped back then.

Even in this story we have a story where Apple is censoring software (alternate browsers), making the lives of their users worse.

Let's be honest, writing enterprise Java is enough to kill anyone's passion. That stuff sucks your soul out until you make it to architect level (then you spend your time sucking other people's soul out).

She should find a job that interests her more (while lets be honest, work is called work because it's not fun). Then, if that job happens to be embedded programming, she get a raspberry pi and work with it for a while. After a couple months she should be more than proficient enough to find a job in embedded.

In any case look through job postings until she finds something interesting. Once again, work is generally not interesting.

If you could install your own browser on iOS, then browsers wouldn't be a problem. Because of the walled garden, you can't.

"Walled garden" isn't a tired argument against iOS, it is a very serious problem, but fanboys would rather ignore it or call it 'worn out.' In reality it sucks and there's no need for it, and plenty of reasons to not have it.

Look into the history of the many forks, for starters.

This quote is why full and immediate disclosure is important:

Usually an admin can solve the problem with a firewall, or by temporarily disabling a feature, or something similar. Don't leave people open to attack.